NEW PEOPLE Collection: 9 artists in one room. Defining “hybrid” as part of NEW PEOPLE’s mission.

SUPERFROG Gallery is excited to announce its third exhibition, NEW PEOPLE Collection. The opening day, we are having a huge Valentine’s themed celebration to introduce the artworks. Don’t miss the gallery opening reception from 5pm – 8pm at SUPERFROG Gallery!

NEW PEOPLE ARTIST VILLAGE Vol. 2
NEW PEOPLE and BAZAAR BIZARRE SF team up again for another vertical art village to celebrate the exhibition opening of NEW PEOPLE COLLECTION at SUPERFROG Gallery, and NEW PEOPLE ARTIST VILLAGE Vol. 2, a Valentine themed art fair. Plan your date at NEW PEOPLE and find the perfect gift for your significant other!

February 13th:
NEW PEOPLE ARTIST VILLAGE Vol. 2
noon- 8pm at ALL FLOORS of NEW PEOPLE

Gallery Opening Reception
5pm – 8pm at SUPERFROG Gallery

Valentine’s Specials!
There are many specials at NEW PEOPLE to make your Valentine’s romantic! Find out more!

NEW PEOPLE Collection Artists Introduction:

Katsuhito Ishii
Known for his prowess in directing films and animation, director Ishii is here to reveal his secret art project: FACES, a series of illustrations symbolizing “the revival of pop culture” .

Sidney Pink
Sidney Pink (born 1979) is an American artist that creates small pencil and watercolor drawings. Pink lived and worked in Japan for four years where he found inspiration for his art.

Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano’s breathtaking and vibrant new work is boldly coated with auto paint and metallic glitter and is an ode to his childhood love for American pop culture.

Junko Mizuno
Junko Mizuno, currently residing in San Francisco, has a huge following in the US and is known for her provocative and strong feminine imagery used in her manga comics and artworks.

Kim Songhe
Kim Songhe, a Korean national born in Tokyo, is known for sculptures made of natural materials and reusable wastes. She says that she creates to bring new life to dying objects.

Mikito Ozeki
Mikito Ozeki describes his work as ‘an ambiguous something with no answer’. Ozeki simulates the wavering of human values with both ambiguity and distinct lines of a paper cutout.

Noritake
Noritake uses simple lines and numerous motifs that have nothing in common. Viewers may make their own discovery while glancing at his images picked from nostalgic sources.

Tomomi Kazumoto
Kazmo, screen printer extraordinaire, entertains your eyes with kitschy playfulness and dark nostalgia. “CAMPAIGNDEVIL” is the expression of intangible space and time.

Yuichi Yokoyama
Yuichi Yokoyama often delivers his art in the form of comic illustrations. For NEW PEOPLE Collection, his giant live painting he created in San Francisco will be on display.

Saturday, February 25th
5:30 PM – 7:15 PM VIP reception in NEW PEOPLE lobby
7:30 PM – Blood Into Wine Screening at VIZ Cinema
9:30 PM – The Heart is the Drum Machine screening at VIZ Cinema

NEW PEOPLE’s VIZ Cinema is proud to be one of the hosting venues for this year’s NOISE POP FILM FESTIVAL, and the site for the VIP reception. “FREE DRINKS and a chance to meet some of the films directors and producers! “. We will be screening Blood Into Wine and The Heart is a Drum Machine back to back after the reception. After each screening, there will be a Q&A session by the directors so stick around!

Blood Into Wine (TRT 110 mins)
Directed by Ryan Page & Christopher Pomerenke
Q&A with Directors Ryan Page & Christopher Pomerenke following the screening
www.bloodintowine.com

Tickets are SOLD OUT! Thank you!

BLOOD INTO WINE is the widely anticipated documentary that shares the story of Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer front man Maynard James Keenan and his mentor Eric Glomski as they pioneer winemaking in the hostile deserts of Arizona.

Trailers:

The Heart is a Drum Machine (TRT 70 mins.)
Directed by Christopher Pomerenke
Q&A with Director Christopher Pomerenke following the screening
http://www.zu33.com/heart/

Get your ticket! $10

The Heart is a Drum Machine is a music documentary about music and its regenerative powers from the producers of 2006’s Moog feature and features an impressive cast of musicians, music historians, critics and scientists including MTV’s Kurt Loder, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, KCRW’s Nic Harcourt and actor/musicians Elijah Wood, Jason Schwartzman and Juliette Lewis.

Find out more about NOISE POP FILM FESTIVAL

NEW PEOPLE / VIZ Pictures were invited to be a part of the 2009 Asian Heritage Street Celebration. With our booth on Larkin Street, we enjoyed a hot day of fun festivities at the one day celebration. Back in May 2009, we were still awaiting the completion of our building and were taking serious notes from our big sister street festival on how to make it all happen. Now with NEW PEOPLE open and J-Pop Summit Festival’s success, we like to thank Asian Heritage Street Celebration for their support and we look forward to a prolonged relationship. Represent! Stay tuned for more events coming up!

Calling all artists! Submission deadline is Friday, February 12, 2010

We are teaming up with The Asian Heritage Street Celebration 2010 and Kearny Street Workshop to host the annual poster competition for the 6th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration.

Organizers are looking for innovative artists to create an exciting and unique image. The winning artwork will become part of the personality for this year’s event and will be featured in posters, postcards, Muni bus ads, BART banners, bus shelters, newspaper ads and in a TV commercial.

Download poster contest rules here!

6th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration is to be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010 in front of the Asian Art Museum leading up to the Little Saigon District.

For more info visit www.asainfairsf.com

Thursday, January 28 – Sunday, February 28th
at NEW PEOPLE the STORE

NEW PEOPLE is excited to host our very first VALENTINE’S DAY. For this very day that symbolizes “LOVE”, and the whole month of February, we have some specials for you lovers!

Show Them Your Love: Between January 28th to February 28th, all Q-pot items will be 30% off at NEW PEOPLE the Store! Get your lady a super sweet gift that will make her smile! Also, our favorite GIRAFFE TIES are all 30% off during the same whole month! Boys and Girls can enjoy the unique and often bold designs of GIRAFFE.

A Movie Date: During our Valentine’s Specials, if you watch either love stories by Isshin Inudo, bring a date and they get in for half price!
Find out more about Valentines at VIZ Cinema.

Fog Linen’s Alier Long T-Shirts are perfect for layering and creating your own style. It’s like a blank canvas that inspires your own fashionable expressions. Add a belt, undershirt, scarf, jeans, and even boots. The cut of the shirts is designed for a more relaxed and soft look.

Fog Linen produces its linen products in Lithuania, where a traditional linen industry has been trading worldwide since the Middle Ages. Founder, Yumiko Sekine of Japan, was inspired to create everyday simple linen clothes “like the ones from childhood” that she could not find anywhere. After finding that even in Lithuania, simple linen was nowhere to be found, she started her own line of linen products with a local Lithuanian company in 1993.

In 2010, Yumiko’s simply elegant Alier Long Shirts can be found at Tokyo Creators Garden, here at NEW PEOPLE in San Francisco!

TOKYO CREATORS GARDEN’s NEW BLOG

Our staff at TOKYO CREATORS GARDEN have started their own store blog! Check out products and stories at http://tokyocreatorsgarden.blogspot.com/